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The 20th century was a revolutionary period in art history. In the span of a few short years, Modernism exploded into being, disrupting centuries of classical figurative tradition to create something entirely new. This astoundingly thorough survey of art's modern era showcases all of the key artistic movements of the 20th century, from Fauvism to Pop Art, featuring illustrative examples of some of the most renowned works of the era along with illuminating companion essays by expert critics and art historians. A vivid window into the collective psyche of the modern world's great artists, Art of the 20th Century is a must-have for any fan of contemporary art.
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Table of contents
1Art of the Art of the 20th Century 20th Century
2Author: Dorothea Eimert
3The Sixties: Close to Real Life Nouveaux Réalistes Concrete Art
4Introduction
5Nicéphore Niépce, between 1822 and 1838, photography increasingly
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6Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, or Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec underscore.
7Hertz in 1888 and the discovery of practical wireless telegraphic transmission
8Expression and Fragmentation
9I dream of an art of equilibrium, of purity, of tranquillity⁄ of
10Renaissance such as, for example, Diego Velázquez.
11The Passion of Christ, Mary with Child, and St Dominic are
12In 1908, Henri Matisse founded the Académie Matisse.
13Paula Modersohn-Becker and Tranquillity in Worpswede
141889 to the small, undisturbed village of Worpswede bordering
15Clara Westhoff and her future husband, the poet Rainer Maria
16The nature-inspired sensual expression of her colleagues at
17Drouot auction house, she, together with Clara and Rainer
18Âreckless and straight on.Ê At the beginning of November 1908
19Futurism: The Dynamisation of the Image
20Giacomo Balla, Carlo Carrà, Umberto Boccioni, Luigi Russolo
21Wyndham Lewis and Christopher Richard Wynn Nevinson
22Expressionism and the Search for Contemporary Form
231912 Internationale Sonderbund exhibition in Cologne and the
241913 the Erste Deutsche Herbstsalon (First German Fall Salon)
25With a belief in development, in a new generation of
26Nidden. There in open nature, in the light, air and sun, they
27New Guinea and the islands of Palau in 1913 and 1914.
28In 1911, Heckel, Kirchner, Pechstein and Schmidt-Rottluff
29However, friction and differences of opinion inside the
30A visionary with a deft feeling for the future, Herwarth Walden
31Kokoschka, Filippo Marinetti and Wilhelm Worringer.
32Frauenkirch. The mountain environment and the power and majesty
33Dresden (School of Applied Arts in Dresden) as a master class
34Berlin, such as the Orphism by Delaunay, Italian Futurism and
35Senator of the Belin Academy of Fine Arts.
361919 on the occasion of an exhibition of Paul Cassirer in
37The flower paintings of Emil Nolde, either in watercolour or
38Gogh, Gauguin, Monet and the other French artists, as well as
39Individuals
40Gleichmann, Richard Janthur, Jakob Steinhardt and Erich
41Among the main representatives of German Expressionism, Karl
42The Milieu of the Blaue Reiter
43significance of her art at the beginning of the 20th century.
44concept of abstract compositional structures. Long drawn
45Expressionism in Austria
46moment, the essential nature of things and the creation of a
47to the visible and the representational.
48August Macke and Rhenish Expressionism
49Secessionist societies. Thus, the exchange of information
50For the first time in July 1913, the artistic avant-garde of the